Chapters 22-24 Summary

In Chapter 22, Poitras arrives and Elvis tells him the whole story while finishing the bottle of scotch. He gets another bottle. Ellen tells her story, as well. She was kidnapped at the grocery store parking lot and the men told her Mort stole cocaine from her and demanded it back, threatening to kill and rape her. When they brought in Perry and started hitting him, she told them falsely that Elvis had the cocaine. Poitras questions Elvis some more and tells him that Duran is used by the mafia to launder money. Poitras is concerned that they don't have enough evidence to connect Duran to anything that's happened. The police confirm that two men Elvis shot at are dead. The house was up for sale, and the men must have broken in to the empty residence. Elvis puts Ellen to bed...